Hi, everone,

We had this news item on our UK. echurch list.

this is a terible thing to happen to this girl. as you will read.

Will you please, join us in prayer for this dear one.

Love,
Malcolm.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Catherine Davies" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2006 8:12 PM
Subject: [echurch-uk] Prayers for scalded 10-month-old


> One of our older church members, Peter, was approached in the park last 
> week by a lady he knows slightly. She told him her friend's grand-daughter 
> had been left with 85% burns after a freak accident and asked if he would 
> ask his church (Minehead Baptist church, which we also go to) to pray for 
> her. This lady then said to Peter, "All I know about your church is that I 
> have heard it is a praying church". Please join us, and many others, in 
> praying for this child, her family and her doctors and nurses. Her 2 year 
> old sister was in the room, she is unhurt but severely traumatised, if she 
> hears a kettle boiling she starts screaming.
> Here are the details from the BBC news:
>
>      Prayers for scalded 10-month-old
>      Prayers were being said for a 10-month-old baby who was scalded when 
> hot water pipes burst above her cot.
>      Rhianna Hardie remains in a critical condition in hospital after 
> suffering 85% burns in the accident at her council house in Taunton, 
> Somerset.
>
>      Doctors have told the baby's family her injuries are so severe that 
> she only has a 20% chance of survival.
>
>      The Rev Tim Jones said: "Our thoughts are with her family and we are 
> of course here to support them."
>
>      "All churchgoers have been saying prayers for Rhianna and her family 
> at this time of tragedy and hoping and praying she will pull through," he 
> said.
>
>      Rhianna was scalded on only the second night the family had spent in 
> their council house.
>
>      Her parents heard a loud bang in her room and found boiling water 
> pouring from pipes on to the child's cot.
>
>      Her father Mathew Hardie, 27, suffered burns to his hands and arms as 
> he pulled Rhianna from the cot.
>
>      She was taken to Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital, before being 
> transferred to Frenchay Hospital in Bristol and then to the city's 
> Children's Hospital, where she is currently under sedation and in a 
> critical condition.
>
>      Skin grafts
>
>      Mr Hardie and the baby's mother Charlene Haworth, 23, have been at 
> the baby's bedside since the accident last Sunday.
>
>      Doctors have told the family that the next four weeks will be 
> critical to Rhianna's survival.
>
>      They hope to use skin grafts from her midriff - which was protected 
> from the boiling water by her nappy - to grow skin that could be applied 
> to her face and body.
>
>      The baby's grandmother Kathleen McKenzie, 47, said: "The main thing 
> is that she is still here.
>
>      "She's a real little fighter and that has got to bode well for the 
> next few weeks.
>
>      "The family would just like to thank everyone for being so kind to us 
> during this difficult time."
>
>      The Health and Safety Executive and Taunton Deane Borough Council 
> have both launched an investigation into the accident.
>
>      Avon and Somerset Police have said there are no suspicious 
> circumstance surrounding the baby's injuries.
>
>
>
>
>
> Blessings
> Catherine Davies
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